BAY DATELINES

Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, April 28, 1998

AH: Woman may have leaped from overpass Berkeley A 48-year-old woman may have jumped off the University Avenue overpass early Tuesday and landed on Interstate 80 where she was struck by a car.

A spokeswoman for the California Highway Patrol said an unidentified woman was reported to the Berkeley police at 1:10 a.m. while on the overpass.

They didn't find her but noted a woman's body in the slow lane of westbound I-80.

The CHP said the body was struck by a westbound auto that did not stop.

All westbound lanes of the freeway were closed and traffic diverted around the area for more than three hours as officers conducted their investigation into how the woman died. Investigators are trying to determine whether she jumped off the overpass or wandered down onto the freeway below, the CHP said.

Elite runners start the first wave of Bay to Breakers 2018San Francisco Chronicle

Coyote trots around Golden Gate parkTed Andersen, SFGATE

Bicyclist critical after

being hit by two
cars
San Francisco A 27-year-old San Francisco bicyclist was critically injured late Monday when he was struck by two cars as he attempted to make a turn in front of them.

Police said Michael Sims was riding his bicycle northbound on Valencia Street at 11:50 p.m. when he started to make a left turn into Liberty Street.

He was first struck by a southbound car driven by Lawrence Kelleher, 56, and thrown into the path of another southbound car driven by Jennifer Rubin, 44. Kelleher and Rubin also are San Francisco residents.

Sims, who was not wearing a helmet, suffered a head and facial injuries and a damaged knee. He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital where a nursing supervisor Tuesday morning described his condition as critical.

Man charged in death

of a fellow inmate Fairfield A 24-year-old inmate at the Solano County Jail in Fairfield was arrested Monday in connection with the beating death of a 43-year-old inmate there.

Solano County sheriff's Deputy Gary Faulkner said Anthony Taiwo Adams of Vallejo, in jail for a parole violation, has been charged with manslaughter for the Sunday death of Jerry Lee Perkins, who was serving time at the jail for domestic violence.

Perkins had been convicted Friday and was starting a one-year sentence.

Faulkner said jail employees found Perkins unconscious in the exercise yard of the jail minutes after he went out Saturday.

Perkins was treated for a head injury at the scene and taken to North Bay Medical Center. He was later flown to the UC-Davis Medical Center, where he died Sunday.

3 Bay Cuban cigar

sellers plead guilty Three Bay Area residents who smuggled thousands of Cuban cigars into California pleaded guilty Monday to charges of trading with an enemy of the United States.

Ringleader Joseph Bruce Hybl, 41; his girlfriend Julie Ann Chatard, 35; and Jack R. Bramy, 49, will be sentenced on July 27 in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, according to U.S. Attorney Paul Seave.

Two other members of the international smuggling ring, Xavier Abrego, 44, and his wife, Kimberleigh Lavonne Ferm, 39, both of Elk Grove, pleaded guilty previously, Seave said.

The five were indicted by a federal grand jury a year ago after they supplied undercover agents in Sacramento, Atherton and elsewhere with Cuban cigars, officials said.

Importation of Cuban cigars and other Cuban goods without a license has been a crime since 1963 when President John F. Kennedy imposed a trade ban on the communist island.

Abrego and Ferm were arrested April 18, 1997, after delivering about 64 boxes of Cuban cigars to an undercover agent, prosecutors said. Specifically, Hybl, Chatard, Abrego and Ferm each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of trading with an enemy. They face up to 15 years in prison and $500,000 in fines, the government said in a prepared statement.

Animal protesters

banished from Cal Berkeley An Alameda County judge has barred four protesters, arrested last Tuesday for barricading themselves in the UC-Berkeley's Campanile, from returning to the campus.

An attorney representing the protesters from In Defense of Animals said Judge Jennie Rhine told the four they can visit the campus Tuesday morning for an animal rights news conference, but cannot return until after their trial for trespassing charges.